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…and she [Yocheved, the woman whom Amram married] was his father’s sister [a union forbidden in Lev 18:12]. Whoever claims that the produce grown in one field succeeds when planted in another field, but does not succeed [when planted] in the same field where it grew, spoke incorrectl...
Jewish resistance was broken and the Romans expelled the Jews from Judea in AD 135 (the Diaspora). At this point we would expect the Jews to leave history in the manner of the other ancient civilisations, such as the Babylonians and the Hittites; but no, the Jewish people survived...
hatred of the Israeli government, and general distaste for Jews, the more Zionist I get, though of course I’ll never accept the superstitions of Judaism. It’s hard to remember that there was a time—not that long ago—when Israel barely crossed my mind. ...
50 C.E.). Explaining what it means that God created woman out of the side[5] of man, he writes (Questions and Answers on Genesis 1:25): Accordingly the lawgiver says that woman was made from the side of man, intimating that woman is a half of man’s body. For this we also ...
The students hated it. They said it was too long and they didn’t cotton on to the Victorian prose. So, after that failure, I found a condensed version (it might have beenthis one, about half the length of the original). But that didn’t fly either. It turned out that the students...
The guerrillas supply themselves (as was done in Vietnam) from the foreigners’ largesse of food, medicine, weapons and ammo.Afghans have a strange inner mindset–they ‘like’ it when foreigners arrive spouting whatever propaganda they want to spout. The Afghans then fall to work exploiting ...
Israel, however, stands apart. We transformed Israel into a land flowing with milk and honey. Farms were built, industry was created, and Torah study and scholarship reached new heights. Innovation and entrepreneurship seemed to be flowing out of the faucets. ...
Years ago I went to teach in an urban school in order to join black people in their quest for equality. I was naïve, unaware of my ignorance, and totally conscious of race. What I learned was to question: why always in black and white? Please look for
When Michelangelo was only fourteen, his father persuaded Ghirlandaio to pay his apprentice as an artist, which was highly unusual at the time. What material did Michelangelo use for David? Michelangelo created David from a piece of marble that had been twice discarded by other sculptors. ...